2012 Champions Sprint 3w2062

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Slade Powers to Champions Sprint Glory
19/10/13

1 Slade Power 7/1
2 Jack Dexter 5/1
3 Viztoria 5/1
14 ran Distances: nk, 3l, hd
TIME 1m 15.79s (slow by 3.39s)

Slade Power held off the challenge of Jack Dexter to win the QIPCO British Champions Sprint.

Slade Power
Caroline Norris

Trainer Eddie Lynam, who won the King's Stand Stakes with Maarrek, who was the victor in Prix de l’Abbaye 13 days ago, finished 12th, having been sent of the 7/2 favourite.

The soft ground loving gelding played up in the stalls before the race and dwelt, losing a length as they jumped out and thereafter never threatened to trouble the judge in the six-furlong contest.

Declan McDonogh, who rode the bay Pivotal gelding, said: “He was pretty bad in the gates – we went in last in Paris. He lost a hind shoe as well, his off hind. He never travelled at any stage and he has run a stone below what he is capable of.”

Qipco British Champions Sprint Stakes (Group 2)
366,525 added, 3yo plus, 6f, Class 1
14 ran
Going: Soft